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Inquiry Appears To Be A Process Of Thinking, But Actually It's A Way To Undo Thinking. Thoughts Lose Their Power Over Us When We Realize That They Simply Appear In The Mind. They're Not Personal. Through The Work, Instead Of Escaping Or Suppressing Our Thoughts, We Learn To Meet Them With Unconditional Love And Understanding.

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Inquiry Appears To Be

Byron Katie

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Inquiry Appears To Be A Process Of Thinking, But Actually It's A Way To Undo Thinking. Thoughts Lose Their Power Over Us When We Realize That They Simply Appear In The Mind. They're Not Personal. Through The Work, Instead Of Escaping Or Suppressing Our Thoughts, We Learn To Meet Them With Unconditional Love And Understanding.

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I Am Never Unhappy, You Can Achieve That As Well.

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So, How Do You Get Back To Heaven? To Begin With, Just Notice The Thoughts That Take You Away From It. You Don't Have To Believe Everything Your Thoughts Tell You. Just Become Familiar With The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness. It May Seem Strange At First To Get To Know Yourself In This Way, But Becoming Familiar With Your Stressful Thoughts Will Show You The Way Home To Everything You Need.

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I Have Had The Privilege Of Losing Everything.

Losing Everything

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Place Only Your Kindest Thoughts On Everything You Experience Today. Meet Yourself.

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What You’re Believing In The Moment Creates Your Suffering Or Your Happiness.

The End Of Suffering Happens In This Very Moment, Whether You're Watching A Terrorist Attack Or Doing The Dishes. And Compassion Begins At Home. Because I Don't Believe My Thoughts, Sadness Can't Exist. That's How I Can Go To The Depths Of Anyone's Suffering, If They Invite Me, And Take Them By The Hand And Walk Them Out Of It Into The Sunlight Of Reality. I've Taken That Walk Myself.

Any Story That You Tell About Yourself Causes Suffering. There Is No Authentic Story.

I Am Entirely Motivated Without Anger. The Truth Sets Us Free, And Freedom Acts.

I Do Whatever I Can To Serve Peace. My Job Is The End Of Suffering.

I Saw That We're All Doing The Best We Can. This Is How A Lifetime Of Humility Begins.

God, As I Use The Word, Is Another Name For What Is. I Always Know God's Intention: It's Exactly What Is In Every Moment.

When You're Comfortable And Secure, It's Not Enough. The Mind Doesn't Stop There Because It Has To Continue To Focus Itself As This Body, So It Moves To Pleasure. And Pleasure Really Is A Non-existent Thing. When We're Experiencing Pleasure, We're Trying To Hold Onto It As It Leaves, So It Really Isn't Pleasure. Pleasure Is Pain Because We're Grasping.

It's Quite An Amazing Experience To See The Same Life With And Without The Thought. We Come To See How Crazy A Thought Can Make Us When We Believe It.

Amazing Experiences

The Voice Within Is What I'm Married To. All Marriage Is A Metaphor For That Marriage. My Lover Is The Place Inside Me Where An Honest Yes And No Come From. That's My True Partner. It's Always There. And To Tell You Yes When My Integrity Says No Is To Divorce That Partner.

Realizing That People Should Lie When They Do Makes Me A Little More Open-minded, A Little More Tolerant, When My Child Or My Partner Lies.

There's Never A Mistake In The Universe. So If Your Partner Is Angry, Good. If There Are Things About Him That You Consider Flaws, Good, Because These Flaws Are Your Own, You're Projecting Them, And You Can Write Them Down, Inquire, And Set Yourself Free. People Go To India To Find A Guru, But You Don't Have To: You're Living With One. Your Partner Will Give You Everything You Need For Your Own Freedom.

Peace Doesn't Require Two People; It Requires Only One. It Has To Be You. The Problem Begins And Ends There.

There Is No Security For Those Who Seek It Outside Of Themselves.

So There's Only Transcendence In The Moment. Nobody Can Be Transcended Forever. That's Why I Say, "who Cares If You're Enlightened Forever?"

I Love What I Think, And I'm Never Tempted To Believe It.

Sometimes The Concept You're Questioning Makes More Sense To Ask Just The Second One And Not The First One.

You Cannot Hurt Me. Only I Can Do That.

I Was Clinically Depressed. I Was Paranoid. I Was Agoraphobic. I Would Have Days At A Time Of Not Being Able To Even Bathe Or Brush My Teeth.

Just Because We Love Someone, We Begin To Notice That Love Is An Experience And We Have To Do Something With It. We Don't Have To Marry People Or Date Them Because We Care About Them Very Deeply. It's An Experience.

Pay Close Attention To The Particular Thoughts You Use To Deprive Yourself Of Happiness.

It Is Not Your Business To Love Me. It Is Mine.

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It's Not The Darkness That People Fear; It's What They Imagine Into The Darkness.

If You Don't Like Your World, Question Your Thoughts About It.

How Do I Know It Was Meant To Happen This Way? Because It Did.

Meant To Happen

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